McCorkle Surname Y-DNA Project

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Welcome!

Thanks for taking a moment to visit. The McCorkle Surname Y-DNA Project
was established on 30 Jun 2005 at
FamilyTreeDNA.com.
If you are a male with surname (last name) McCorkle, or any of its variant
spellings, please consider joining the project.

Purpose

This DNA project is offered as a forum for all McCorkle researchers to
compare their traditional genealogical research to the results
indicated by Y-DNA comparisons. Some research will be proven; perhaps
some will be disproven. In some cases, disjointed branches will be
linked, thus validating the need for future research. Whatever the
results, I'm sure they will be rewarding and beneficial to the larger
McCorkle research community, and will increase the genealogical body of
knowledge.

Objectives

Genetic genealogy is meant to complement--not replace--traditional
genealogical research. To that end, one objective is to discover as
many of the genetically distinct McCorkle lines that exist in the world
today. Thus, for each McCorkle participant who joins the project, but
doesn't match any other participants, a new line is identified. A
second objective is to encourage as many participants to join the
project. This will allow the related participants from each distinct
line to share the results of their traditional research efforts, and
help each other learn more about their own clan of McCorkles than any
one of them might discover on their own. Genetic genealogy projects are
most successful when participation is high.

Variant Spellings

The McCorkle surname
(soundex code: McCorkle=M262, Corkle=C624) has many variant spellings. Rest assured, all
are welcome and encouraged to join. This list, in alphabetical order,
contains as many variations of "McCorkle" as I could find. If you know
of others, please send it in an email (select Contacts in the Menu at left).